Phillpotts
EDEN, an English novelist, born in India in 1862. He was educated at Plymouth, England, and at the age of eighteen became a clerk in an insurance office, a position which he held for ten years. His first published novel till the President's proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863, he was Garrison's loyal and valued ally. He also championed the cause of temperance, and that of women, was "Lying Prophets," 1896. This was and the rights of the Indians. In 1870 followed in regular succession by a large he was nominated governor by the Prohi- number of books, mostly depicting Devonbitionists and the Labor party. His speeches and letters were collected in 1863 (new ed. 1884). He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 2, 188. For his life see "Wendell Phillips, Orator and Agitator" (New York, 1909).